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Royal Mail’s Buckingham Palace Stamps 2014
Buckingham House in 1700 looks almost unrecognisable to today’s Palace. (PA)
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The Royal Mail has released a 10-stamp collection celebrating Buckingham Palace, the official London residence of British sovereigns since 1837.
The set includes six stamps featuring the changing exterior of the building through the ages, commissioned by Royal Mail from artist Chris Draper.
There is also a miniature sheet of four stamps with photographs of four opulent locations inside the 775-room palace – the Throne Room, the Blue Drawing Room, the Grand Staircase and the Green Drawing Room.
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The Province of Eastern Rumelia
The Rhodope Mountains defined a border of Eastern Rumelia.
Eastern Rumelia is best known to stamp collectors. The province was created in 1878 by the Treaty of Berlin and existed only until 1885, when it was annexed by the Principality of Bulgaria. Eastern Rumelia’s stamps had elements of special philatelic value: shortness of issue period, unusual overprintings, and perforation variations.
I’ll admit I can say nothing about perforation variations. That is one of those wonderfully obscure items that absorb hobbyists. But the overprintings occurred for geopolitical reasons.
Two treaties were signed after Russia won the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, the latest of centuries of conflicts between those two parties. The Preliminary Treaty of San Stefano—the word “Preliminary” is an official part of its title—was signed March 3, 1878, at a village west of Istanbul. Without the immediate backing of the other Great Powers, representatives of the Ottoman Empire weren’t able…
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